James Sullivan

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First the pandemic, then a wildfire: Joe Gittleman’s new band has been forged in adversity. In 2022, Gittleman’s long-running ska-punk band the Mighty Mighty Bosstones imploded after nearly four decades together, reportedly over frontman Dicky Barrett’s anti-vaccine activism. A year later, Gittleman recorded a song called “Who Am I (To Say)” with a few musicians he’d been working with.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

While filming the new horror comedy “The Parenting” at New England Studios in Devens, the all-star cast and crew stayed at the historic Colonial Inn in Concord. The film is about a group of future in-laws who come together for a vacation in what turns out to be a haunted house. The Colonial Inn, as the cast learned when they checked in, is itself considered to be haunted. “They do talk openly about it,” said director Craig Johnson about the hotel staff.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

Before he was the rambunctious frontman for the J. Geils Band, Peter Wolf was one of the first disc jockeys on WBCN. Holding down the station’s overnight shift in the mid-1960s, just as it was transitioning from a classical station toward its future incarnation as “The Rock of Boston,” the fast-talking raconteur interviewed traveling blues and soul musicians on air.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

There’s an eerie sweetness to “Are You Mine?,” one highlight from Kim Deal’s first solo album. It’s the kind of lilting, evanescent pop ballad that the late David Lynch might have included on a soundtrack. The song’s title was inspired by real life, said Deal, leader of the Breeders and former member of the Pixies. Deal, who brings her current touring band to the Wilbur on March 10, moved back to her native Ohio years ago to live with and care for her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

If you Google one of Frederick Wiseman’s earliest films, “Hospital” (1970), the search engine’s results identify it as a “Documentary/Comedy.”Shot at a chaotic community hospital in East Harlem, the film captures a series of interactions between medical staff and patients in various states of distress. It’s hardly a laugh riot. A still from "Titicut Follies."“That’s amazing,” said Wiseman when informed of Google’s description. “Not that I don’t think my films are funny.